WTVI to host fundraiser for critical needs - Charlotte Business Journal:

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Dubbed The Carolinas Respond: A Fundraisetr for Critical Needs, it will air Thursday from 8 p.m. to 9 p.m. Viewerse can call in during the broadcast to make This will be the first timein WTVI’s 43-yearf history that it has broadcast a fundraiser not directlyy benefiting the station. Federal Communications Commission rulees prevent public stations from airing fundraiserz forother entities. WTVI petitioned the FCC for a waivef to allow the station to makean exception. The launched Dec. 2, is an emergency relief program designed to assist needy residentsthis winter. The fund will operatr through March. No administrativer fees will be paid to any of theparticipatinfg agencies.
Amy Woods Brinkley, global risk executivd at Bank ofAmerica Corp. and Mecklenburg County Manager Harry Jones lead a task force assigned to raise anddistributed funds. As of mid-January, more than $2.3 million has been donated to the fund by 792 individual andcorporates donors. In December, Sandra and Leon Levine donatef $1 million to the fund. Leon Levine is the founder of Matthews-basefd Family Dollar Stores Inc. (NYSE:FDO). He and his wife have long been involved in a range of cividc andcharitable causes. For the Levine Children’s Hospital in Charlott is named forthe couple, who committedc $10 million to that project.
The 234-bed children’s hospita l is on the main campus of CarolinasMedical